Face masks have become a must at exhibitions, as well as temperature checks at entrances, and avoidance of close-contact situations. With such measures, museums that...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
The continuation of stay-at-home restrictions due to the novel coronavirus pandemic have significantly impacted the reality surrounding video games. The World Health Organization (WHO)...
The prestigious Præmium Imperiale award, which recognizes the achievements of artists from all over the world, will officially not be held in 2020. The...
I have written on this subject time and again, but the phrase “Military Comfort Women” was coined long after the war ended. This terminology has...
So, finally, the coronavirus crisis has forced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a state of emergency and thereby enable a “soft” version of the...
The global spread of the new coronavirus has dealt a monumental blow to the airline industry. Demand has dropped sharply due to travel restrictions imposed by...
Toyota Motors and NTT Communications have agreed to join hands in developing the infrastructure for a next-generation, highly energy-efficient “smart city,” using information technology (IT)...
On March 3, the High Court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case brought against me by former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi...
Rumor has it that Princeton decided not to create a law school because it thought a trade school would tarnish its scholarly reputation. True or...
Since its publication in November 2019, the book Han-nichi shuzoku shugi: Nikkan kiki no kongen or Anti-Japan Tribalism: The Root of the Japan-Korea Crisis (Bungeishunjū) has...
The comfort women issue has generated a lot of heat. There is endless argument about how many women worked as comfort women, whether they were sex...